I didn’t mean to imply that that YOU didn’t know the difference between the types of plaque. I was merely stating that for the lay people on this thread to differentiate the types of plaque and how dental health can affect your overall health.
Oh, OK. . . My original comment to which you were replying wasn't too well written. I wasn't implying that all those diseases were caused by plaques just on the Islands of Langerhans either. . . but plaques that form throughout the body in different localities. We need to find out why the plaques preferentially form sometimes in arteries, sometimes only in veins, sometimes on the islands of Langerhans, sometimes in the brain, sometimes in the heart, etc. . . yet when they look at them, they find the oral spirochetes. Are there specific sup-species that have these preferences? Is it something the victims have or do? Diet? Environmental? The real problem is the extremely long etiology and development of these diseases. . . and the disconnect between exposure onset and first appearance of symptoms that cause anyone to look. . . at which point the disease is well established and not much can be done to reverse any damage.
As to what plaques are in the body. . . yes, they are made up of fats and other materials, but the start seems to be a frame work of spirochetal coil structures from dead spirochetes that have anchored themselves into the location and entangled themselves. To this "skeletal" structure, apparently passing cholesterol, fats, dead cells, crud, anything in the flow of blood passing by, is snagged before it can be filtered out by the kidneys and added to the plaque concretions. . . and add more spirochete entanglements which are natural screw shapes.